It’s Romance Weekly time! Hello to all joining from Jo Richardson’s blog.
Something a little different this week.
We are to write a love letter, less than 400 words, including the words- sweet (cheated a bit and used, bittersweet), brush, and pumpkin!
I actually wrote this on my lunch break today, so it’s not brilliant, but it was great fun to try out something new! 😀 I think the love letter should definitely come back into fashion!
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To my dearest,
I can no longer brush these feelings aside. It has been too long to ignore what we once had, what we could have again.
How can you not see what I offer? Why will you not accept what I give?
You tell me it would be too much to bear, but I will bear it for the both of us. Bittersweet it may be, short it may be, but forgettable it would not.
The pumpkins are glowing orange outside of my window as I write this, like beacons of memories of what we once shared in those fields.
Take what you will from me, I would sacrifice it all to have you once more.
Just once.
Forever yours…
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Not brilliant, and a bit old-fashioned, but great fun to write 😀
Now, go check out what Elizabeth Janette has written for this challenge!
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🙂 Yea, the good old fashioned romance letter…. ❤ Reminds me of the song Dear Darlin,…. on which I incedently did a Haiku poem post today….. 🙂
Just read your poem, and it was brilliant! Always amazed at those with the talent to write Haiku! 😀
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🙂 I enjoy commenting when I have the time. Thank you also for commenting on my poem. 🙂
The charm of a good old fashioned love letter can be quite endearing 🙂
I always think anything that is old fashioned has a great romance to it 😀
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This is lovely Mishka, and to use your word bittersweet. It makes me want to know what has happened to this couple, what their story is. 🙂
Thank you so much 😀 It was fun to try out something a bit different!
Loved your letter too, felt really real with plenty of emotion 🙂
Great job and thanks for this fun challenge. I went the sentimental route.
I’m glad you enjoyed it 😀 It’s always fun to try out something new!
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Great letter! What a fun exercise!
It was really nice to give something different a try 😀
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Thanks for prompting this week’s flash fiction. What fun! Like the way you used “brush.”
I do like prompts where you have to use words, it’s always great to see the different ways everyone uses them 😀
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It’s a forgotten art form, letter writing. I thought it was lovely
It really is a lost art, which is a shame, because it can be so beautiful 🙂
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Loved the challenge this week. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Love letters are a lost art form. Loved this! Great challenge. =)
Glad you enjoyed it! It was nice to try out something different for my writing 😀
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with good ol’ fashion!!! I adored your letter!!!
Old fashioned really does feel so much more romantic at times 😀
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I feels like a forbidden romance and the letter is a secret between them. 🙂 very nice.
That was the feeling I was trying to get across, so glad it came out that way 😀
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Just an old fashioned love song, or sonnet. Very poetic.
I do love the old fashioned 😀
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Man, I can’t remember the last time I wrote a love letter. I might need to do something about that…
Love letters are always awesome, definitely needs to come back in fashion. Think we’ve lost some of the romance in today’s world, hence why romantic fiction is so popular 😀
Exercises like this are a great test of our writing skills… well done!
It is great fun to try out something different and expand our styles 😀
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so much desperation. Great writing.
Thank you so much! 😀 I really wanted that sense of need and urgency in it.
This would be fun to do. Every now and again I go back to the binder where I keep the nearly two decades’ old love letters my hubby and I wrote when we first met. Then I wonder if those are are the same two people 😉
Love letters are such personal things that I think it can reveal a lot more about someone than anything else could!
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Ah, the old-fashioned love letter. Certainly an art form that should be brought back, and you did it so well. xx
I’ve seen some of the love letters from very old times (such as Napoleon) and wow, those are incredible! I think it’s a shame that expressing our feelings like that has gone out of fashion!
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It’s a shame we don’t write letters anymore. I used to, all the time. When I moved house last year, my friend and I got into the habit of writing to each other, and it was such a joy to receive the letters. I enjoyed your love letter – especially the line about the pumpkins. Nicely done 🙂
It is a shame, I sometimes manage to write letters to my friend, but not as much as I used to.There is definitely more excitement in receiving a handwritten letter than a text or email I think 😀
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